Hello everyone, Happy new year! I have had an email from someone involved in a production of Beowulf in New York, looking for players who might be interested...
Thanks so much for posting this, Micheal. Hello to the group! Yes, we've built one and a second on the way. We plan a semi-staged reading of my partner's...
Hello Niki, Welcome to the Lyre Forum!! From an artistic perspective you have an unique opportunity to share with people the soundscape of another world, with...
Thanks so much for leading me here! I'm mostly concerned about being heard - I've noticed when plucking it's very whispery...and I may be faced with a choice...
Hello Niki & all,  As most know I recently got my Sutton Hoo Lyre reproduction from the master harp maker Jay Witcher. He designed mine a bit deeper in the...
I don't know; I play nylon-strung wire and I strum it. I admit that it took me some time to warm to the sound (I'm a harp player and so the harpier plucked...
Thanks for all the input, guys. The air space in our lyre is just under an inch deep, and once we got the bridge to stop buzzing I was pleased with the sound!...
I make my lyres by taking two slabs of wood (cherry, maple, or walnut) 1/2" thick, hollowing out the resonating chamber, then gluing them together. The result...
Nylon is probably louder in terms of projection and volume; gut is not as loud, but has a feeling of authenticity to it. Quantity vs. quality. Larry the M...
... Hi Niki, ... As Michael may have mentioned earlier, I think the main consideration for you here is actually how well the lyre stays in tune. If the ...
... I often use fingernails because I can't lose them (and I grow them longish for wire harp). But I do have and sometimes remember to use a natural horn...
... <sca_bard@...> wrote: Hi Jamie, ... not just pass behind it, and pretty well lock the instrument to your hand. Yes, absolutely! With the strap wrapped...
You could always di what I did to my second trossingen http://www.nogy.net/lyre/electross/index.htm The piezo pickups don't alter the sound much at all, and it...
Hi Tim, I use the same tuning as you, but I often leave more than one string open as drones. There seem to be five different combinations of pairs of strings...
Jamie, Thanks fort he referral - wow what you don't find onthe web. Bone picks that you don't pick up out of the woods yourself. A recodrding would be great....
Anybody got a picture of a wrist strap? i ain't got one of those... I'm also tuned Up the scale - do, re etc. I asked Benjamin Bagby about his tuning at a...
Bagby tunes pentatonically: do re fa so la do. It is a tuning that works really well for improvisation (which is what he does - I asked him, after his DC...
I had emailed Michael King about this a week or so ago after carefully looking at Bagby's video's on the Internet. Michael pleas comment if I am off base her....
I have made lyres with spruce, maple, oak, and even luan plywood as soundboards. I have more problems with the full round (sutton Hoo) style lyres depressing...
We wish all our friends, relatives and colleagues a successful 2009! The Holidays are over. Every day life is starting in again. Here a small bit of wisdom to...
... Hi Niki, ... teh ... I ... It's hard to give you advice without seeing you play (so please excuse anything I write that was already obvious to you), but...
Bagby actually uses a variety of tunings. He told me recently that he uses the pentatonic tuning you describe for Beowulf, and different tuning for the Eddas. ...
Greetings all, I've recently purchased several large chunks of amber to work into lyre bridges. Other than the "castle" shaped bridge, I've been unable to...
Thank you for the suggestion, but I've tried that route, with very few results. Dee ... From: LM <lavransrm@...> Subject: Re: [Anglo_Saxon_Lyres] Amber...
Hello! Somewhat frustrating, cause I just did this search myself about six months ago and now can't find my notes. As a side note, the copal amber, even...
AS my personal attempts at amber bridges have ended badly, I tend to advise against them. They are very fragile and tend to break easily. I'd say stay with...
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